We Will Now See Massive Panic Across World Markets

Today one of the top economists in the world
warned King World News that people must get prepared right now because
investors are about to witness massive panic across all global markets.
He also warned about a coming great inflation and how destructive it
will be for people to endure. Michael Pento, founder of Pento Portfolio
Strategies, wrote the following powerful and exclusive piece for KWN.
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While officials from the Federal Reserve gather in Jackson Hole Wyoming
this week to bemoan that inflation isn’t yet high enough for their
liking, the truth is that inflation is already ravaging the middle
class....

To prove my point, the government’s
official reading on core CPI inflation (one of the Fed’s preferred
metrics that removes food and energy prices) increased just 1.7% from
July 2012. So, in the mind of those who control the value of our
currency, inflation is well below their target of 2%; and therefore
needs to be increased.

Nevertheless, let’s try
another, more real-world way of calculating the data. The labor
department correctly judges that prices paid for shelter should be a
significant proportion of the core CPI calculation (about a 40%
weighting). According to the Labor Department, prices for shelter
increased only 2.3% from July of last year.

However, according to the
National Association of Realtors, existing home prices surged 13.7%
year-over-year. And according to the Commerce Department, new home
prices jumped 8.5% year-over-year. If you include the increase in the
other items in core CPI ex-housing (up 1.2% year-over-year), a more
accurate measurement of core CPI can be achieved. Consumer prices would
be up 5.1% from the year ago period -- assuming you simply average the
cost of purchasing a new home with that of an existing home.

In reality, existing home
purchases exceed the number of new home sales and would therefore
increase the core rate reading. The difference between the government’s
data and what is collected from private sources is that the Bureau of
Labor Statistics measures the imputed rental value of homes, instead of
actual increases in what consumers have to pay for real estate.

A core rate of inflation
that is rising north of 5% year-over-year should send shivers down the
spines of those at the Fed, and consumers alike. However, amazingly Mr.
Bernanke is still debating if a $3.6 trillion Fed balance sheet and the
$85 billion worth of new credit creation each month is doing enough
damage to the value of the dollar. The Fed’s inflation is especially
painful to the middle class, due to the fact that real median incomes
have fallen 6.1% since the start of the Great Recession, which began in
December 2007.

Our economy is so addicted
to money printing that the Fed can’t agree on when, or even if, it
should reduce the level of its asset purchases. Mr. Bernanke’s
confusion over monetary policy is evident, despite the fact that he has
built up a stock, bond and real estate bubble. This trifecta of asset
bubbles exists concurrently for the first time in American history.

Our central bank will soon
have to decide whether or not it will continue allowing these bubbles to
grow to a more dangerous level (intractable inflation); or to start
selling trillions of dollars worth of bonds and send interest rates
soaring. We have already witnessed what a mere one percent increase in
mortgage rates did to new home sales (down 13.4% in July, the lowest
level in 9 months). This occurred without the Fed tapering its purchases
of MBS and Treasuries by even one dollar. Just imagine what will
happen to interest rates when the Fed not only stops buying that debt;
but also starts unloading its balance sheet.

It seems apparent that we
should prepare for fireworks in the bond, currency and equity markets
across the globe in the very near future, no matter what Mr. Bernanke
decides to do. Therefore, it would be prudent to purchase portfolio
insurance in the form of gold and silver to help mitigate the fallout
that is sure to come from massive central bank manipulations.

Important - Two powerful audio interviews have now been released, one with billionaire Eric Sprott, the other with Egon von Greyerz and you can listen to them byCLICKING HERE. Also, an extraordinary KWN audio interview with Michael Pento is available now and you can listen to it byCLICKING HERE.